Vallejo

Vallejo Paints are most known for their high-quality acrylic paints, primarily for painting hobby models. These come in a variety of product lines with various specialties. Their line of paint includes Model Color, Model Air, Game Color, Game Air, Mecha Colors, and hundreds of paints sets within each of these lines.

Vallejo Model colors usually consists of colors that are flatter and more realistic, these are usually suited towards historical miniatures and offer perfect matches for colors suchs as Russian Army Uniform, British Uniforms, or any other colors from different military nations. The Game color range is about half the size in terms of options compared to the Model Color range. Game color consists of more vibrant and brighter colors, which are suited more towards fantasy miniatures.

Vallejo paints come in dropped bottles which allows for great control and precision when pouring out of the bottle. Like all acrylic paints, it is best to thin them a bit for a better application. Some of their paints such as Vallejo Air are pre-formulated and thinned to work directly from the bottle into an airbrush. With the exception of the airbrush paints, all Vallejo paints are brush on paints.

Vallejo paints are the best overall for miniatures in our opinion. It is what we always recommend to our customers. There are a number of reasons for this, here are a few:

-One of the main reasons is that they come in dropper bottles, which allows for greater control and application of the paints. This allows you to precisely measure recipes for future projects (2 drops of Bright Red + 1 Drop of Dark Blue for instance). Dropper bottles also reduce paint wastage from the paint being exposed to air and drying, as well as transferring from the pot to your palette.

-Vallejo has a wide selection of paints with hundreds of colors, they have one of the most extensive collections along with a variety of specialty lines that is sure to work for almost any need

-Vallejo paints are affordable (We sell them for $4.50cdn / pot)

-Well-known brand name, with lots of content online to help guide you along the way.

Acrylic paints are best for miniatures as they are fast drying and can be thinned with water. This allows you to not lose those tiny details when painting with them. Fast drying is also a bonus as you don't want to be waiting hours for paint to dry before moving on to the next step. This makes acrylic paints ideal for miniatures, which online require a small amount of paint to get the job done, and also have high detail points that can be lost with un-thinned paint.

Acrylic paints are 100% better for hobby miniatures. Acrylic paints also emit fewer harmful fumes compared to enamel paints. It is much more beginner friendly. Enamel paints have their spot as well, but we always recommend acrylic first.